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Geo’s input in the new “standards”, which has not been previously reported, highlights the #ICE contractor’s influence over the agency that is both its #regulator &, corporate filings show, its biggest customer.
2 of the #Trump admin’s top #immigration ofcls — border czar #TomHoman & ICE’s acting director, #DavidVenturella — previously worked for #GeoGroup….
#law #Trump #HumanRights #CivilRights #PrivatePrisons #ForThePeopleByThePeople
@Nonilex Welcome to the world of evil and dictatorships where your life belongs to them.
No private interest has a right to private lives.
GeoGroup is Hitler's Final Solution as a business model, with lots of perverted abuse by fuckups along the way because every person they employ is a goddamned broken monster.
@Nonilex ......they had detainee protections?
They're concentration camps. You can't have detainee protections in concentration camps.
When #ICE was revising the federal #standards that govern #immigration #detention centers, one of its top contractors privately asked for changes that could benefit its business, acc/to a person briefed on the discussions.
#GeoGroup, which oversees more than a dozen ICE detention facilities, has faced #lawsuits in 3 states alleging it violates #MinimumWage #laws by paying some #immigrant detainees $1 a day to work.
#GeoGroup maintains that the work is “voluntary” & that it operates the program at the direction of the #government.
Geo asked that #ICE remove lines saying contractors needed to follow state & local #laws around the treatment of detainees & that ICE amend language to support its #legal position in these cases…. The company also asked that the standards specify that detainees are not employees of the facilities where they work.
#law #Trump #immigration #HumanRights #CivilRights #PrivatePrisons
@Nonilex
So, they brought back slavery.
The new national #detention standards, which #ICE posted to its website Monday, include some of #GeoGroup’s requested changes. The document says detainees are not employees & “are not entitled to wages or benefits under applicable #wage #laws or #labor #regulations.”
The revised rules no longer say detainees must be paid at least $1 per day, & no longer include several references to contractors having to comply with #state or local laws.
#ICE standards are the key rules that #govern the conditions of #detention centers, where hundreds of thousands of people are held each year. The policies, which ICE enforces through its contracts with #private companies & local governments, cover a wide range of facility operations, including how body cavity searches must be conducted as well as when detainees should be placed into solitary confinement.
#law #Trump #immigration #HumanRights #CivilRights #PrivatePrisons
Geo’s input in the new “standards”, which has not been previously reported, highlights the #ICE contractor’s influence over the agency that is both its #regulator &, corporate filings show, its biggest customer.
2 of the #Trump admin’s top #immigration ofcls — border czar #TomHoman & ICE’s acting director, #DavidVenturella — previously worked for #GeoGroup….
#law #Trump #HumanRights #CivilRights #PrivatePrisons #ForThePeopleByThePeople
As the #Trump admin has ramped up arrests of #immigrants, it has relied on #GeoGroup to help it significantly expand the nation’s capacity for holding #ICE detainees. Advocates for immigrants & some #state regulators say poor #oversight at many of these facilities has led to the mistreatment of migrants.
#law #Trump #immigration #HumanRights #CivilRights #PrivatePrisons #ForThePeopleByThePeople
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